Best Movies of 1962 by Rank
30
1
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif
Adventure / War / Drama / Epic
UK
English
41
2
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
123
3
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
330
7
Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
460
9
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Drama
France / Italy
French
484
10
Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
540
11
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
588
12
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Gary Cockrell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / UK
English
645
13
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Drama / Biography / Family
USA
English
783
14
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Musical / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English
810
15
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
821
16
Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Sci-Fi / Short / Experimental / Romance / Fantasy
France
French
868
17
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger
Action / Drama / War / Epic / Family
USA
English
884
18
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
933
19
Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Romance / Drama
USA
English
960
20
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Drama
USA
English
1074
21
Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam
Drama / Sports
UK
English
1199
23
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Drama / Religion
Sweden
Swedish
1234
24
Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer, Malcolm Patton, Gwen Nelson
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1303
25
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
1333
26
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1342
27
Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
English
1397
28
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
1431
29
Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix
Drama
UK
English
1435
30
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, James Stewart, Carroll Baker
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic
USA
English
1513
31
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1668
32
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
1698
33
Anselmo Duarte
Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo
Drama / Religion
Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
1719
34
Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1742
35
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1775
36
Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff
Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
1800
37
Nanni Loy
Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
1850
38
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1905
39
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1915
40
Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1937
41
Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1956
42
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
1984
43
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi
Rossano Brazzi, Stefano Sibaldi
Documentary
Italy
Italian
1998
44
Herk Harvey
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt
Thriller / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2009
45
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2025
46
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford
Drama
USA
English
2042
47
Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Michael Kane, Carroll O'Connor
Drama / Western
USA
English
2051
48
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
2063
49
Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2149
50
John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2179
51
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Action / Adventure / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2184
52
Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2269
53
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn, Marcel Dalio, Jean Rochefort
Action / Comedy / Adventure / Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2269
53
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2345
55
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau
Comedy / Drama / War / Adventure
France
French
2399
56
Toshirô Mifune, Columba Domínguez, Flor Silvestre
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2437
57
Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo
Comedy / Fantasy
Italy / France
Italian
2437
57
Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff
Comedy
USA
English
2437
57
Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace
Musical / Drama / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2507
58
Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Short / Drama / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2546
59
Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, Giorgio Albertazzi, James Villiers
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
English
2562
60
Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2599
61
Warren Finnerty, Jerome Raphael, Garry Goodrow, James Anderson, Carl Lee
Drama
USA
English
2599
61
William Holden, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Griffith, Carl Raddatz, Ernst Schröder
Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
2599
61
Paul Killiam, Harvey Cort, Saul J. Turell
Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Mack Sennett
Documentary / Action / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2599
61
Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Isabel Dean
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2599
61
Raizô Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shiho Fujimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2599
61
Arthur Dreifuss
Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly, Jack Cunningham
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2599
61
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
2615
62
Irene Papas, Yannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Drama
Greece
Greek
2638
63
Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns
Horror / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2638
63
Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees, Hermione Gingold
Animation / Family / Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2638
63
Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lefebvre, Jacques Marin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2638
63
Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn
War / Drama
USA
English
2638
63
Michael Callan, Cliff Robertson, James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Suzy Parker
Drama
USA
English
2638
63
Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord
Comedy / Adventure
UK
English
2638
63
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2655
64
Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado
Adventure / Drama / Epic / Religion
Italy
English
2655
64
John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack
War / Drama
USA
English
2656
65
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka
Drama
France / Greece / USA
English
2683
67
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2691
68
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2692
69
Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone, Sylvie
Drama
France / Italy
French
2698
70
Boris Tokarev, Nina Urgant, Yuri Volkov, Nikolai Burlyayev
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2710
71
Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp
Drama
UK
English
2710
71
Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey
Drama
France
French
2712
72
David Niven, Michael Wilding, Harry Andrews, Noel Harrison
Adventure / War / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2712
72
Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye
Comedy / Musical / Action / Romance
USA
English
2712
72
Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns
Drama
USA
English
2712
72
Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2712
72
Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2712
72
Philip Dunne
Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern, Hugh Griffith
Thriller / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
2712
72
Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
2712
72
Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2712
72
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak
Fantasy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2733
73
Nat Hiken, Al De Caprio, Stanley Prager
Joe E. Ross, Fred Gwynne, Paul Reed, Al Lewis, Beatrice Pons, Hank Garrett
Comedy
USA
English
2733
73
Robert Loggia, Annette Funicello, Jay C. Flippen, Patric Knowles, Lynn Bari
Western / Action / Family / Serial
USA
English
2733
73
Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman, Charles Bronson
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Sports / Musical
USA
English
2733
73
Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2733
73
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2766
74
Jacques Rozier
Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Descamps, Stefania Sabatini
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
2780
75
Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2791
76
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
NR
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Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Drama / Romance
France
French